Amazon Studios Orders Gillian Flynn’s Drama Series ‘Utopia’

Gillian Flynn signed a major deal with Amazon Studios.

Deadline confirms, Gillian Flynn is contracted to adapt U.K. series ‘Utopia’, which was written by her. Amazon Studios already order a nine-episode straight-to-series project. Flynn will be the creator, showrunner as well as an executive producer.

You can read the synopsis of the series below:

Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel. Within the comic’s pages, they discover the conspiracy theories that may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world.